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| In this age, information forms a key element in our society. Everything is recorded, captured, stored and ordered. Yet we have so many data, it is hard to actually see everything, at a fast pace. A lot of information gets lost, or forgotten in this huge pile of records. If your watching the 7 o'clock news on TV, you need a paper or the internet to know more about certain items presented. It takes you a few minutes a day to actually filter out obsolete items, and records, before you get to the core information. This is where LIFE24 comes in. At any given time around the globe, information is gathered, recorded, and published. LIFE24 just fuses these sources together and visualize every source to their origin on the world map. If correctly filled with sources you can trace the news feed, or images to their geographical 'source'.
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| In this age, information forms a key element in our society. Everything is recorded,
Now we're not the only ones creating this awareness. Take writer Chuck Palahniuk for example. He wrote a few books ( "Choke", "Survivor", "Fight Club" etc), in which the characters attempt, conscious or unconscious, to let the consumers, be aware of their world, their lives. But if we look at projects a bit more like our project, you'll find some interesting maps at Number27 Jonathan Harris, attempts to show us a number of facts and presents them in a graphical map of the world. We discovered his work when we visited a website 10x10 . On this website a very similar application was constructed using visual sources of news and presented these sources in a grid of 10 by 10 frames. If you move your cursor over the frames, a title is presented on the right. There's no artistic concept here, just a purpose of making "news-scanning" easy to do. The same counts for yet another application which uses just live news feeds, instead of images. Mapped Up . Now there are projects which try to turn this world awareness into world blindness. In 1955 Roy Oliver Disney, better known as the brother of Walt Disney, opened Disneyworld in florida. His intention was to let visitors leave their reality and give them a totally different world. Walt Disney tried it before with Disneyland, but it looked to much like the real world.
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